[Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 123 (Thursday, July 17, 2025)]
[Senate]
[Pages S4486-S4487]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 2951. Ms. ROSEN submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by 
her to the bill S. 2296, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 
2026 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military 
construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy, 
to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for 
other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

       At the appropriate place in title X, insert the following:

     SEC. 10__. TREATMENT AS RADIATION-RISK ACTIVITIES BY 
                   DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS.

       Section 1112(c)(3) of title 38, United States Code, is 
     amended--
       (1) in subparagraph (B) by adding at the end the following 
     new clause:
       ``(viii) At any time on or after January 27, 1951, onsite 
     participation in any aspect of the development, construction, 
     operation, or maintenance of a military installation (as 
     defined in section 2801 of title 10) at a covered location at 
     the Nevada Test and Training Range.''; and
       (2) by adding at the end the following new subparagraph:
       ``(C) The term `covered location at the Nevada Test and 
     Training Range' means a location at the Nevada Test and 
     Training Range, Nevada, where there was a potential of toxic 
     exposure.''.

     SEC. 10__. PRESUMPTIONS OF TOXIC EXPOSURE BY DEPARTMENT OF 
                   VETERANS AFFAIRS.

       Section 1119(c) of title 38, United States Code, is 
     amended--
       (1) in paragraph (1)--
       (A) by redesignating subparagraphs (A) and (B) as 
     subparagraphs (B) and (C), respectively; and
       (B) by inserting before subsection (B), as so redesignated, 
     the following:
       ``(A) on or after January 27, 1951, performed active 
     military, naval, air, or space service while assigned to a 
     duty station in, including airspace above, a covered location 
     at the Nevada Test and Training Range, Nevada;''; and
       (2) by adding at the end the following new paragraph:
       ``(4) The term `covered location at the Nevada Test and 
     Training Range' means a location at the Nevada Test and 
     Training Range, Nevada, where there was a potential of toxic 
     exposure.''.

     SEC. 10__. PRESUMPTION OF SERVICE CONNECTION BY DEPARTMENT OF 
                   VETERANS AFFAIRS.

       Section 1120(b) of title 38, United States Code, is 
     amended--
       (1) by redesignating paragraph (15) as paragraph (16); and
       (2) by inserting after paragraph (14) the following new 
     paragraph:

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       ``(15) Only in the case of a covered veteran described in 
     section 1119(c)(1)(A), lipomas and tumor related 
     conditions.''.
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